Ganesh Janani

Sakti Burman visits a classical topos from the art of Kalighat here, which flourished between the 1830s and the 1930s in Calcutta, and which produced watercolours and prints in which the high iconography of Hinduism was vigorously and marvelously transformed into a popular vocabulary through the use of irony, humour and tenderness. In ?Ganesh Janani?, we find the great Mother in her role of Parvati, as Ganapati or Ganesha?s mother enthroned and receiving homage from her worshippers.